Ten Commandments Monument Added To Haskell County Courthouse

[sazemisery]

I can't believe I live in this state! :grr:

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=72118

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Haskell County Commissioner Henry Few: "It's been pounded in people's heads so long that a lot of people believe there is a difference between church and state, but I don't believe there is".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Constitution? What Constitution?

[tk2kewl]

2. Where am I?

Is session really going to be the only option?

[Guy_Montag]

3. Try getting a Church of Satan monument erected

"Few says this isn't just about the Judeo-Christian faith. He says they would also consider religious monuments from other faiths at the courthouse."

Because we all know that last statement is an outright lie.

[Old and In the Way]

13. How about a monument of an oil well?

seems all of this administration's actions in this world, is done in the name of Big Oil.

[RoyGBiv]

18. Already got one ...

It sits on the capitol grounds.

Oh, wait, that's a real oil well.

[rwork]

4. I can't believe I live here either.

Strangely the man behind it, is Mike Bush.There are quite a few bushes in Haskell County.

[bowens43]

5. We have a theocracy in our future.

You thought the Taliban was bad? Just keep watching.

[Zuni]

6. These people are just trying to do a 'Roy Moore'

and get in the papers and become heroes to the evangelical crowd.

[eleonora]

7. let's ask to have the Koran there too, and the Torah

let's lobby to have the teachings of the Dalai lama too

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. That would prove the point, wouldn't it?

All you'd need is a non-Christian group asking to put up its own monument, and wait for the screaming to start.

[eleonora]

9. I almost wish a group would come forward and do it

[JudyM]

12. Well, the Ten Commandments are key to Judaism, too.

We follow the Old Testament. But we don't impose this on others.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. I'd like to see a synagogue ask for a something like a Torah monument

since that is more distinctively Jewish. Or maybe a mosque could ask for something commemorating the Koran (though I think Islam generally prohibits some kinds of "graven images.") Wouldn't it be interesting if some Wiccans asked for a monument?

[JudyM]

15. That'd be interesting.

Maybe a star of David, but I can't imagine putting a Jewish spiritual symbol in a public place. They're usually reserved for places of worship or the home. There's no proselytizing impulse at all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. And that, IMO, is the way all religions should operate.

I think religion, or even the lack of it, is purely personal, and it bugs me that there's this impulse among (especially) evangelical Christians to advertise. If a religion really is inspired by God, why do its adherents have to shill for it anyhow? But I'd still kind of like it if some non-Christian religious group asked to put up some kind of symbol in a public place, just to see if anyone objects and what their phony excuse would be.

[JudyM]

17. Yeah - put it to the test. See how they react to 'competition.'

[qnr]

10. So which one is it?

The Hebrew, The Catholic, or The Protestant? (Like I really have to ask) == and now can the others demand that all three be put up?

Edit: For clarification: http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm

[Malva Zebrina]

11. Everybody is enabled now

since Bush declared to them he has a mandate.

That means, Christianity is the national religion. These do not realize they have essentially taken away their own right to separation of church and state. They are the property of the state.